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more idle thoughts - about file metadata
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Posted by 22111
Jan 28, 2014 at 04:01 PM
Jim,
I should have said, I didn’t find any info on ADS that both was intellectually accessible to my mind, AND gave me some hint how to PROCESS those ADS in a file M environment. I had seen the Russinovich tool, but didn’t see a way to have then all this necessary ADS info ready for processing = sorting / filtering for it (as is done in some of those file managers though); just looking, one by one, at those ADS attributes, for hundreds of files, by batch-triggering the same tool again and again, and fetching the individual results, did not seem to be a viable solution for me; I would have needed “more direct” access to it (as X2 and DO certainly will both have found, but their developers have way more know-ho to correctly “read” highly technical info).
This being said, if I got the necessary info which enabled me to access it, “in numbers”, so that I could then process it, by AHK, I’d be happy to share any AHK script I then wrote to process such info from any file manager. (Here again, it would be some additional tool, automatically triggered, then closed, but no way to do it WITHIN the respective file commander - and as said in the other thread, both X2 and DO seem to “withhold” their respective know-how on these matters.
Perhaps I overestimate the burden on today’s computers when I think there should be an easier way to access that data but by running a 41 kb tool 1,000 times, again and again, to produce the raw data for such a list which then could be sorted/filtered.
Another idea: X2 cannot rename/add further such ADS attributes, but what about its displaying (and then even processing/changing the contents of) EVERY “non-standard” attribute, created by a third-party application (sw or just little tool?). Unfortunately, it’s not worthwile to “try” this with MS Office, since very certainly X2 has “incorporated” attributes created by Office, as “standard” ones into those it can handle - does anyone knows about some “exotic” prog though that creates really “exotic” ADS attributes, and from which a file, with such attributes, could then be checked from within X2 (or DO)?